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Christian Cooper Says Death Threats Against White Woman Who Called Cops On Him Should ‘Stop Immediately’

Christian Cooper Says Death Threats Against White Woman Who Called Cops On Him Should ‘Stop Immediately’

Christian Cooper, the black New York man who had the police called on him by an angry white woman even though he was doing nothing illegal, says that the woman does not deserve the hate and threats she’s getting over the incident. As CNN reports, on Monday, Cooper was bird-watching in Central Park when he […]

4y ago

Violent & Abusive Internet Trolls Exploit Video Communication App Zoom As It Gains Popularity

Violent & Abusive Internet Trolls Exploit Video Communication App Zoom As It Gains Popularity

Video communications app Zoom is gaining popularity as increasingly more people are forced to work from home due to the coronavirus pandemic. One feature of the app is that people can join public hangouts, perfect for isolated remote workers who are feeling lonely. Unfortunately, this feature has become targeted by internet trolls who share explicit […]

4y ago

The Broom Challenge Sends The Internet Into A Frenzy But It’s Sort Of A Hoax

The Broom Challenge Sends The Internet Into A Frenzy But It’s Sort Of A Hoax

The Broom Challenge has taken the internet by storm, but the truth is, it’s actually a hoax. There is no doubt that a broom can actually stand on its own, as proven by the countless videos and photos left by users participating in the newest internet fad. However, in the initial viral video clip that […]

4y ago

Lil Bub Dead, Viral Celebrity Cat Passed Away In Her Sleep

Lil Bub Dead, Viral Celebrity Cat Passed Away In Her Sleep

Lil Bub, one of the first cats to go viral on the internet due to her precious appearance and uplifting backstory, has passed away at the age of 8, TMZ reports. The animal died peacefully in her sleep. Health Issues And Deformities The odds were stacked against Lil Bub from the moment she was born. […]

5y ago

China Might Cause A ‘Dangerous’ Split In The Internet, FCC Chief Warns

China Might Cause A ‘Dangerous’ Split In The Internet, FCC Chief Warns

China may be planning on utilizing its 5G technology to build its own version of the internet, Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai has warned, per The South China Morning Post. Though this internet would be super fast due to its superior technology, it would nonetheless likely be heavily censored, which is why Pai has […]

5y ago

Fox Business Network Suddenly Cuts Away From Trump Speech When He Starts Rambling About Tractors, The Internet

Fox Business Network Suddenly Cuts Away From Trump Speech When He Starts Rambling About Tractors, The Internet

Donald Trump delivered a speech at a campaign rally-sale in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Tuesday, in a state where he defeated Hilary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election by more than nine percentage points, despite losing the Iowa caucus to Ted Cruz earlier, as Ballotpedia records. While in his usual fashion he breezed over numerous […]

5y ago

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Just Got The Green Light To Provide Broadband From Space

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Just Got The Green Light To Provide Broadband From Space

To date, truly ubiquitous internet access has been the stuff of science fiction. Not anymore. The Verge reports that the “FCC approves SpaceX’s plan to launch more than 7,000 internet-beaming satellites.” “Starlink is SpaceX’s ambitious project to provide constant, global internet coverage from orbit. The spacecraft in the constellation are meant to do a synchronized […]

6y ago

FilmStruck, Streaming Service That Featured Classic Hollywood And Foreign Films, To Be Shuttered November 29

FilmStruck, Streaming Service That Featured Classic Hollywood And Foreign Films, To Be Shuttered November 29

FilmStruck — the online streaming service owned by WarnerMedia that specialized in classic, foreign, “art house,” and Golden Age Hollywood films — will shut down as of November 29, the site announced on Friday. The service was home to the popular Criterion Collection as well as the Warner Bros. library of Hollywood movies dating back […]

6y ago

Jeff Bezos Calls Modern Internet Culture A ‘Confirmation Bias Machine’

Jeff Bezos Calls Modern Internet Culture A ‘Confirmation Bias Machine’

Speaking at the Wired 25 conference in San Francisco on Monday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos covered a wide variety of topics, from his current plans to develop a space tourism industry to his defense of Amazon’s relationship with the U.S. Department of Defense. Bezos also opened up about his take on the modern incarnation of […]

6y ago

California Governor Jerry Brown Signs Net Neutrality Law

California Governor Jerry Brown Signs Net Neutrality Law

California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation to restore net neutrality in the state late Sunday, Reuters reports. Previously approved by the state Assembly and Senate, despite protests from internet service providers and cable lobbyists, California’s net neutrality rules are thought to be the strictest in the United States, according to Ars Technica. “While the Trump […]

6y ago

Kylie Jenner Tries Cereal With Milk For The First Time: ‘Life Changing’

Kylie Jenner Tries Cereal With Milk For The First Time: ‘Life Changing’

Kylie Jenner has had an eventful year. She became a mother, starred on her first Vogue cover, and Forbes announced she is close to reaching billionaire status. Now, the 21-year-old can check another big accomplishment off her 2018 checklist: trying cereal with milk. The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star took to Twitter on Tuesday […]

6y ago

California Set To Pass New Net Neutrality Legislation, Pending Approval From Governor

California Set To Pass New Net Neutrality Legislation, Pending Approval From Governor

California legislators approved a bill yesterday to pass some of the nation’s strongest laws regarding net neutrality. The new measure is headed for the governor, Jerry Brown’s, desk. Governor Brown has not yet indicated whether or not he will sign the bill. The new bill will prohibit internet providers from blocking certain content or giving […]

6y ago

Algeria Shuts Off The Internet Nationwide To Prevent High Schoolers From Cheating On Exams

Algeria Shuts Off The Internet Nationwide To Prevent High Schoolers From Cheating On Exams

Algeria’s decided that education is important enough to shut down the internet nationwide for an hour a day between June 20 and 25. Additionally, Facebook will be blocked during the entire duration of the exam period. The move is being done in order to ensure that high schoolers don’t cheat during their national high school […]

6y ago

Net Neutrality Ends Tomorrow, FCC On Track To Remove Rules As Scheduled

Net Neutrality Ends Tomorrow, FCC On Track To Remove Rules As Scheduled

Net neutrality protections, first put in place during the Obama administration, will end on June 11. Ever since the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted in December to rescind the rules, members of Congress, tech companies, and numerous advocacy groups have fought without success to keep net neutrality in place. Net neutrality rules were enacted to […]

6y ago

Newark Embraces Orwellian Surveillance By Citizens On Fellow Citizens

Newark Embraces Orwellian Surveillance By Citizens On Fellow Citizens

Newark, New Jersey, residents beware: someone may be watching you as you go about your daily routine. And not just police or those with authority, either. It could also be your neighbor, or someone you’ve never met. Called the “Citizen Virtual Patrol,” the city of Newark is inviting everyone to join in on a surveillance […]

6y ago

Patrick J Adams, Meghan Markle’s TV Husband, Eats Crow After Calling Out Body Shamer On Instagram

Patrick J Adams, Meghan Markle’s TV Husband, Eats Crow After Calling Out Body Shamer On Instagram

There’s nothing worse for most people than being criticized for their weight or the way they look in photos. Unfortunately for Patrick Adams, Meghan Markle’s TV husband on the show Suits, a simple incident has blown up into something that he wasn’t prepared to deal with. While Adams was at the airport on his way […]

6y ago

The FCC Thinks American Broadband Standards Are Too Fast And Defined Too Aggressively

The FCC Thinks American Broadband Standards Are Too Fast And Defined Too Aggressively

Net neutrality, the principle that internet service providers must treat all data on the internet the same without discriminating or charging differently, is effectively dead. The Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal net neutrality on December 14 last year, dismantling net neutrality regulations. This has set the ground for the repeal to go into full […]

6y ago

Meghan Markle’s Hat Dubbed ‘Poo Emoji’ Look-Alike, Designer Remains Unknown

Meghan Markle’s Hat Dubbed ‘Poo Emoji’ Look-Alike, Designer Remains Unknown

From most reports, Meghan Markle rocked her first Christmas event with the Royal Family but what she wore on her head has the wheels of social media churning as they try their hardest to describe it. This is one hat that will be remembered if Meghan should ever decide to recycle it for another event […]

7y ago

Net Neutrality Isn’t Gone Just Yet, And Is Likely To Stay At Least Through 2018

Net Neutrality Isn’t Gone Just Yet, And Is Likely To Stay At Least Through 2018

Net neutrality has been on everyone’s minds lately, especially now that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has, as of last week, voted to end the rules that, theoretically at least, ensure a free and open internet. And while alarmist headlines in publications such as the Los Angeles Times, Fox Business, and TechCrunch have all mourned […]

7y ago

FCC Repeals Net Neutrality: Is The Internet Doomed?

FCC Repeals Net Neutrality: Is The Internet Doomed?

On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission gathered for their December Open Commissions Meeting and, much to the chagrin of internet users the world over, elected to overturn the Obama-era net neutrality laws established in 2015. Central to the concept of net neutrality is the idea that internet service providers should not be able to slow […]

7y ago

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